Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this is the right place to post this…

I’d like to see dervish make a return and it doesn’t seem all that likely, but I thought a neat way to see it make a comeback in GW2 would be as an elementalist elite spec. Since we aren’t likely to see scythes added as a new weapon type, it could modify staffs. Either it would replace the staff skills with the elite spec equipped or operate as a weapon swap to melee skills since ele doesn’t have a weapon swap anyway. With the “scythe” equipped, the staff would have a blade of the currently attuned element similar to the necro staff 1 animation except with fire/electricity/ice/rock. Or if modifying the staff doesn’t really work, it could simply replace your weapons on weapon swap with a fully elemental scythe kind of like reaper shroud.

Avatars are big part of the dervish but humans already have the racial skills and it doesn’t really fit with the other races so avatars could be worked into the class mechanic using elements instead of gods, like an avatar of fire/air/earth/water. You could charge up an element to unleash the avatar to gain bonuses or modify skills. It could be coupled with the scythe mode.

For utility skills dervishes key skills were enchantments. A new type of skills that were a mix of glyphs and signets would be neat. They could provide passive bonuses until you tore them down to provide an effect based on your element/avatar/if you were in scythe mode.

What does everyone else think about the potential for getting a dervish elite spec? Other ideas? Suggestions?

The GW1 dervish won’t ever come to GW2 as it is too Human God focused. The mechanics, to an extent have been worked into current GW2 classes, can’t think of which, but unless they changed the lore behind the dervish (would kitten a lot of people off most likely) the class won’t make it into game.

Mist.6217:

The GW1 dervish won’t ever come to GW2 as it is too Human God focused. The mechanics, to an extent have been worked into current GW2 classes, can’t think of which, but unless they changed the lore behind the dervish (would kitten a lot of people off most likely) the class won’t make it into game.

Actually, not so much. The prevalent mechanic of the Dervish was consuming enchantments for even more powerful attack combinations. No current class really does that. Furthermore, I don’t feel like the PBAoE aspects of the dervish have been carried out very well either. I’m still waiting on halberds to fix that issue some day.

You do however have a point in that the Dervish will never make a comeback in GW2 as an ESpec or a character class, and exactly for the stated reasons. We could see dervishes as enemies or NPC’s though.

Mist.6217:

The GW1 dervish won’t ever come to GW2 as it is too Human God focused. The mechanics, to an extent have been worked into current GW2 classes, can’t think of which, but unless they changed the lore behind the dervish (would kitten a lot of people off most likely) the class won’t make it into game.

I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. Traditions can be adopted by other cultures and evolve as time goes on. I think they’ve said that divine magic is based on belief in general rather than a specific god or set of gods. Although, a Norn channeling an Avatar of Owl does sound pretty funny. As a lore enthusiast, I think they could handle it well enough without changing the lore behind the dervish, it’s been 250 years and Elona’s changed a lot since then.

As for the mechanics, I don’t see that they’ve really been worked well into other classes, that’s part of the reason I made the post.

I’d love for the Dervish to come back. Obviously traits/skills and such would have to be planned well, to work with GW2.

I think for a specialization, channeling Varesh Ossa would be fitting. The specialization could be called ‘prophet’ (as she’s called a prophet) and it would deal with providing the player fury, increased attack speed, and scythe skills that pull players in towards you – like how the grawl in EOTM statuary creates a huge AOE that pulls everyone in with every pulse (every second), and it lasts 3 or 4 pulses. A trait could make this skill unblockable perhaps?

There’s so much potential for Dervish, as well as Ritualist, and Paragon, to make a comeback. Especially with shouts – Paragons and runes that effect shouts, could work, and Ritualists could deal with bundles and holding ashes, for epic effects – like that skill where you hold someone’s ashes and whenever you’re hit by something, you get healed. A trait could make it so that whenever you’re holding ashes/a bundle, you gain retaliation – so you not only get healed when hit, but you deal damage to enemies through retaliation.

There is so much potential, but I feel as though it’ll never happen, sadly we can dream though